Glenn Beck visits Romney rally in Iowa

11/3/12 2:59 PM EDT

A CNN crew spotted the conservative TV host arriving about 20 minutes before the rally, using a cane to walk around. He watched the rally from the side of an airport hangar, chatted with racecar driver Richard Petty on the tarmac, then got back on the jet and took off.

Romney's campaign said that Beck and the candidate did not meet. Beck's spokesperson has yet to return a request for comment.

[The visit] was a last minute thing. He had time in between his event in Ohio and something in Chicago he is doing for a radio affiliate, so he stopped off in Iowa just to be in the crowd and see what it was like at the rally. Nothing official with the campaign.